Spun gold and garnet single flowers will turn your head. An antique variety with varying heights that gives an informal look to the flower or vegetable garden, where they shine paired with the dark leaves of 'Bull's Blood' beet.

Plucked from the brink of obscurity, this tall, well-built and some may say assertive African marigold has loads of ruffled petticoat flowers in shimmering gold. It's a scene stealer paired with Rubenza cosmos's deep red petals and tufted gold centers. Easy to grow, it blooms nonstop summer to frost.

A scarce petunia variety bred by Bodger in California, it was an All-America Selections Gold Medal Winner in 1950. The fragrant flowers open rich red and fade to a soft red shade. Of the 45 pre-1960 AAS award-winning petunias, this is the only one still surviving!

A fresh and sweet pure pink flower with various shades of the original rich pink. A scatter and grow easy annual that blooms in 6 weeks from seed, and can be sown twice or more a season. Best in early summer and fall as it dislikes high heat. Attracts beneficial insects to your garden.

A choice new hybrid flower that was honored by the All America Selections. Outstanding deep velvety purple flowers still possess that sweet old-fashioned scent. Loads of flowers are produced in summer, and it thrives in heat and humidity. A winner!

Masses of overlapping pointed petals of burnished copper tipped with gold mark this older variety, which won an All-America Selections award in 1962. Easy to grow, simply sow outdoors after the soil has warmed. Pick and fill earthenware vases for simple country arrangements. Grow with 'Starfire' marigold.

A clear favorite in trial gardens across the country, this glamorous sister to 'Queeny Red Lime' is a stunner. Saturated apricot to kiss-of-peach hues are accented by lime green and raspberry at the center of the blooms. Full of reliably double flowers it is disease resistant too and makes a beguiling addition to the romantic bouquets of summer.